Historical information: Robert Louis Oswalt, Pomoan language scholar, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. His fieldwork on Kashaya (Southwestern Pomo) began in 1957 and led to his dissertation, A Kashaya Grammar, and the publication of the book Kashaya Texts in 1964. Dr. Oswalt continued to work on Pomoan languages until 2005, conducting fieldwork on Kashaya, Southern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo, and Central Pomo and exploring the historical relationships within the Pomoan family. The Kashaya and Southern Pomo dictionaries that Dr. Oswalt compiled during his decades of fieldwork on those languages were never published.

Scope and content: These Papers document the linguistic work of Robert Oswalt, including his fieldwork on Pomoan languages and Yuki, Kru-Gbato, Aleut, and Bribri, his research on historical linguistics and other linguistic topics, and his professional activities. The papers include field notebooks containing vocabulary and elicited sentences for Kashaya, Southern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo and Central Pomo, with additional longer texts in Kashaya and Southern Pomo, vocabulary file slips for Kashaya, Southern Pomo, and Central Pomo, as well as notes on grammar and Pomoan cognates. His primary consultants for Kashaya were Essie Parrish and Bernice Scott Torrez, and his Kashaya consultants also included David Antone, Violet Parrish Chappelle, Gladys James Gonzales, Allen James, Herman James, Mary James, Milton (Bun) Lucas, Vana Lawson, Kate Marando, Julia Pinola Marrufo, Sidney Parrish, Laura Fish Somersall, and Vivian Wilder. His primary consultants for Southern Pomo were Elsie Allen and Elizabeth Dollar and his Southern Pomo consultants also included Olive Fulwilder Effie Mabel Luff, Lucy Andrews Macy, and Laura Fish Somersall. His Northeastern Pomo consultants included Oscar McDaniel and Sharky Moore, his Northern Pomo consultants included Annie Lake and Edna Guerrero, and his Central Pomo consultants included Salome Bartlett Alcantra, Frank Luff, and Clara Williams. He conducted Aleut fieldwork with consultant Kathryn Seller and Bribri fieldwork with consultant Guillermina Nelson-Rodrigues. His consultants for Yuki included Arthur Anderson and Bill Frank. The Papers include oral histories collected from linguist Abraham Halpern and Pomoan language consultants Essie Parrish, Elizabeth Dollar, Elsie Allen as well as photocopies of Kashaya and Southern Pomo genealogical and census records and other documents and material related to Pomoan languages, ethnography, and history. Research notes and photocopies of materials on methods for historical linguistics and several other linguistic topics are also contained in the Papers. Drafts of manuscripts and conference handouts created during Dr. Oswalt's career, including incomplete drafts of his Kashaya dictionary, are also included in the collection.

Description: Photocopy of Harrington Chochenyo field notes. Includes a cover note from Callaghan, 1987, about the history of this material.

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Preferred citation: Catherine A. Callaghan and John Peabody Harrington. [Chochenyo field notes], Harrington.001, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1015

Description: Handwritten notes on Chochenyo vocabulary, morphology, and ethnography.(The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Harrington.010.001.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Harrington.010.001.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Harrington.010.001-image_metadata.txt.)

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Preferred citation: María de los Angeles Colós, José Guzman, and John Peabody Harrington. [Chochenyo field notes], Harrington.010.001, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2M61H6G

Description: Undated verifax copy of M. Beeler's handwritten notes on an 1821 word list collected by Arroyo de la Cuesta.(The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Arroyo.001.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Arroyo.001.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Arroyo.001-image_metadata.txt.)

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Preferred citation: Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta. [Karkin and Suisun Patwin vocabulary], Arroyo.001, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2Q52MKM

Preferred citation: Oswalt family. [Notes on computational phylogenetics], Oswalt.002.033, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2162

Description: Contains vocabulary.(The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Mason.001.001.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Mason.001.001.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Mason.001.001-image_metadata.txt.)

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Preferred citation: J. Alden Mason. [Plains Miwok, Chochenyo field notebook], Mason.001.001, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29S1P0X